Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sure Democratic-247, including Missouri, New York, Colorado, Washington. Probably Democratic-99, including Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin. Doubtful-100, including Iowa, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Connecticut. Probably Republican-85, including California, Michigan, Pennsylvania. On July 30, the Kiplinger Washington Agency, on the basis of its own reports, "indicated Hoover's reelection" as follows...
...cities that house their art with their government. Denverites waiting for an audience with alert Mayor George D. Begole may go up to the fourth floor and contemplate pictures by Rubens. Degas, Rousseau, Ryder and Boardman Robinson, director of the Boardmoor Art Academy at Colorado Springs. In the Art Museum's 14 galleries they may look at a bronze statue by Maillol, at Japanese and Chinese art, at collections of medals, ceramics, furniture...
Denver's growth from scratch to 300,000 has been accomplished in a human lifetime. And culture has kept pace with commerce on the Colorado plain. Denver's able Civic Symphony Orchestra gives twelve concerts each year. Its A Capella choir is one of the four U. S. best. Denver's businessmen have a literary circle, the Cactus Club which writes and produces its own plays...
When wheat grains fell by accident in a kitchen garden, it was discovered that great crops would grow in Colorado soil. A degree of permanence began to invade Denver. Some Denverites began to sleep nights. Others carried Denver's early rough-&-toughness to a plush & gilt extreme in the night life of Larimer and Curtis Streets. A block north was Market Street, one of the U. S.'s worst red light districts. Organized gambling and prostitution were open and reputable until...
Iron Gift Horse. Two years ago the I. C. C. denied Colorado & Southern Ry.'s petition to junk its 185-mi. narrow gauge division between Denver and Leadville, valued at $3,600,000. For 32 years it had been steadily losing money; annual deficits had mounted to $400,000. Then Colorado & Southern (a subsidiary of the Burlington) tried to give it away. No one wanted it. Finally Lawyer Victor A. Miller of Denver said he would take the line as a gift, and last week he applied to the I. C. C. for permission to accept it. Lawyer Miller...